The legal battle began in 2012 after two workers stood up against a scheme which paid some employees as diminutive as $1 an hour. A long-running legal battle over a disability employment scheme which paid some people as diminutive as $1 an hour has come to an discontinuance after the federal government agreed to back pay 70% of the wages owed.
The Business Services Wage Assessment Tool (Bswat) assessed the pay of approximately half the employees working in the government-supported Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs) – formerly known as sheltered workshops. It assessed the competency and productivity of workers, but several aspects were criticised as deeply flawed.
Never again should any hardworking Australian with disability earn $1hr sweatshop wages in profitable business. It was never right.
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Source: theguardian.com